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Despite the three-year continuous maintenance of this site and the presentation of dozens of papers with undergraduate and graduate students at Wisconsin, Parkside and Dominguez Hills, my university makes promotional decisions and satisfies itself as to the integrity of my teaching by the following reports. That's all they have room for in their files. (smile)

with specialties in learning theory
philosophy and sociology
because this field gave me tools to answer the really big questions, like
where would all the future Professors of foreign language go?
as those departments simply disappeared?
why do some have? and some have not? how did the world get that way?
what can we do to bring justice and legitimacy back to the fore?

Post-Doctoral Year

In Sociology

At USC

Under a National Defense Education Act Fellowship
with specialties in statistics, methods, and demography
building on my early science training
and giving me more tools to seek answers to those really big questions

An M.A.

from UCLA

on my way to a Ph.D. in French,
as part of the elite corps of teaching assistants under Yvone Lenard.
Years later, when I came to CSUDH
here, too, was Yvone Lenard, the wonderful mentor who taught me to teach
as I have now taught so many others.

Physics, because I insisted.
X-ray crystallography was so much more exciting.

And French, just for me,
because I loved Andre Gide, who said in his journals:
"Je deteste ceux qui m'entendent trop vite."

Election in my senior year to Phi Beta Kappa.

A Bachelor of "Arts" because that is the only degree that Newcomb gave. Only Tulane, to which Newcomb was attached as the "women's school," gave a Bachelor of Science, even to women who majored in physics.

The Esq.

Same as J.D.

from UCLA Law School

Many attorneys use the mysterious and swanky Esquire after their names
even though the California Bar won't confirm that it really means anything
like that you passed the Bar
so it's a wonderful example of pure status waving or
PUFFED UP BULLFROGGERY
gone mad

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What does all this mean? Mostly that I can root for both sides at the annual basketball and football games between UCLA and USC.